Front-end developer / User interface Designer (PROJ-4671)
Job Description
Remote is seeking Front-end developer / User interface Designers to support ongoing major projects across the Corporate and Digital Division in the Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR). The role will be responsible for driving a human-centric approach to service delivery, focusing on understanding customer, business, and technology needs and balancing these to deliver effective digital services. Candidates are required to have a dual skillset, working across both disciplines to deliver intuitive, fit for purpose interfaces through a lean design process involving rapid prototyping, testing, and implementation of solutions. Candidates will work in multi-disciplinary teams to design and develop product improvements, features, user flows, user interfaces, and front-end development. (LH-06082)
Role Description
Key duties and responsibilities
- Help define user-centric designs, iterate and improve to add additional value, based on user feedback
- Be responsible for user-focused UI designs and specification of user flows, prototypes, high-fidelity interfaces
- Plan and perform user experience evaluation to check and confirm that usability and accessibility requirements have been met
- Implement UI component using HTML/CSS and JavaScript Work closely with the team’s user researcher and designers to translate findings from usability testing into improvements for the user interface
- Advocate and problem solve for user-centric design solutions with developers and coach back-end engineers on usability and front-end development
- As a UI Designer, you will tackle complex problems and transform them into intuitive and easy-to-use designs. Then, communicate them by user flows, wireframes, and prototypes.
- As a Front-end developer, you will work with developers translating and problem-solving designs, POC and wireframes into modules and high-quality codes for the best usability and accessibility outcomes.
Technical skills
Required skills and experience:
- Experience implementing responsive UI components for web applications and websites using HTML/CSS, ReactJS and/or Angular Experience using prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Axure or Figma is highly desirable
- Understanding and application of design principles and systems
- Understanding and implementation of WCAG 2.1 level AA guidelines as a minimum, how those guidelines relate to websites and applications, and how visual design, page and code structures
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated experience designing user interfaces working within to an existing style guide and/or design system using HTML, CSS, and Javascript framework such as ReactJS, and/or Angular.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to work with and influence multiple stakeholders, and clearly articulate design decisions through a well-conceived rationale.
- Demonstrated experience in working with others to translate findings from usability testing into actionable improvements to a user interface.
- Knowledge and implementation of Accessibility requirements - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, level AA as a minimum.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrated experience designing wireframes, user interfaces, and interactive prototypes with a high attention to detail and ability to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate designs.
- Tertiary Qualifications in a design or computer science/ICT related discipline (Human Factors, Communication/Graphic Design, Systems Design, Psychology, Computer Interaction, Web development etc.)
Additional requirements
- Due to the requirement for immediate access to PROTECTED information and systems, personnel proposed for this role must hold a current Baseline security clearance at commencement.